Archive for July, 2009
Day 202 of 365 – Tagged
Large On Black (if you dare lol)
Getting the technical stuff out of the way first 
Lighting: 580EXII camera right 1/128th power a about 3 feet from subject zoomed tight
Processing: Followed this guide and backed down the final result a bit.
Flickr has this ‘game’ that people play, actually I think version of it are played in tons of other social networks as well. Essentially the rules of the game are that, if you are tagged, you are to post a self portrait, list 15 things about yourself and tag three of your own contacts to do the same. adebⓞnd tagged me today with his self portrait. I am in turn tagging: wikenden, fleabo and Sue’s Stuff.
Without further ado… my 15 things….
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1) I was tagged once before but blew it off like a fuddy duddy. Decided to give it a whirl this time.
2) I have been married since I was 21 to my wife who was only 18 at the time for 16 years. We have two children. Trevor is eight years old and stars in many of my photographs. Jeffrey is 12 and has been in a few photos as well; Jeffrey is autistic so his appearances in my photos are less frequent as he doesn’t like to cooperate.
3) I live within an approximately five minute drive of my parents.
4) I started with photography a little more than a year ago.
5) I have agreed to photograph a wedding in October of this year. I am very nervous about this.
6) I played MMORPG (Everquest, Dark Ages of Camelot & WOW) role playing games pretty consistently for approximately 6 years. I wish I had calculated all of the played time but it would probably just be scary to know that number; suffice it to say I played for an average of no less than 5 or 6 hours daily with times where I would literally be logged in for more than 24 hours at a time. I have found though that Flickr has cured me of this but I don’t spend much less time on here than I did on these games 
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7) I am the biggest Apple ‘fanboi’ you will ever find.
Other than when I was a baby, and my father was stationed in Germany with the US Army, I have never traveled outside of the United States.
9) I watch entirely too much television. My current favorites are Dexter, on Showtime and True Blood on HBO. I also watch a lot of prime time drama style shows on network TV. It’s sad really.
10) I need to lose *A LOT* of weight, this is probably my biggest challenge. It is definitely something that is beyond ridiculous and why you will not see a self portrait of me that isn’t very creatively posed, cropped or framed to hide as much as I can.
11) I drink more Diet Coke & Diet Pepsi than any human being should. I suspect that if I were to stop the companies would feel the economic impact. So it is really for the good of the economy in general that I must press on
12) I never half do anything I care about. I am very binary in my thinking. I am either completely committed or do just enough to get by.
13) I hate — meaning can’t stand and it bugs me to death — any indication of unread status, email, etc… I literally have to stop what I am doing and check my email if there is a little number beside it indicating any unread messages. I am the same way with facebook notices or anything like it. If I see other people who have things in an unread state it really bothers me .
14) I love audio books and podcasts. I listen to them on my daily commute of 30 to 40 minutes each way to work.
15) I think of myself as a funny guy, though I know I am usually not very funny
Day 201 of 365 – Facing The Shadow
Not much to say about this one. Just playing with shadows today.
Day 200 of 365 – Have One
Happy day 200 to all my fellow Photo Of The Dayers who started with me on January One.
Day 199 of 365 – Sing To Me
Quick shot today of the grill of a microphone. I sort of like the patterns and abstract nature of it at this distance.
Day 198 of 365 – Opening Umbrellas In The House
We had a good time at my parents tonight. We celebrated my sisters birthday and had her son, my kids and my brother’s kids there. They had fun playing with these little drink umbrellas. Not sure where these came from, there was nothing resembling adult beverages in the vicinity In any case I thought this shot was kind of cute.
Day 197 of 365 – Whisk
I was having a hard time choosing a subject for today’s photo of the day. I picked this up just to stand in while I set up lighting and to think of something else. Then I remembered that fionaandneil, one of my flickr contacts and a member of my photo a day group, actually used a photo of a whisk earlier this year: www.flickr.com/photos/fionaandneilpics/3513172823/
Her shot is better than mine but I got the inspiration there. I thought the, uhm, well used shape that this one was in kind of made it a little interesting in a random sort of way. Umbrellas both sides, on glossy printer paper. I forgot the power settings…
Day 196 of 365 – Winner
I drink a lot of Diet Pepsi at work, not that I have anything against Diet Coke — I drink mostly that at home. I really can barely tell the difference — I know there are some that would gasp at that statement but it is the truth. In any case I drink Pepsi at work because that is what is stocked in the machines on my floor of the building. Recently they started this contest for Rockband prizes. I was lucky enough to win a Rockband 2 set for the Wii. It arrived today so I thought I would use it for my photo of the day. I lit this with two speedlights one with a red gel and one with a blue gel (one to each side) but I didn’t pay much attention to the settings (sorry).
Day 195 of 365 – Channel Flipper
Click through the image to Flickr for a setup shot…
Watching TV is a waste of time I know…
Lighting:
580exii behind shoot through umbrella 1/16 power camera left and in front a bit.
Vivitar 285hv 1/16 power gelled red bare. Aimed at back wall about 3 feet from wall.
Camera tungsten wb.
Day 194 of 365 – Purely For My Own Entertainment
Not sure what it is I liked about this but I did. Hope you like it ok too
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